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This year's Tour de Houston will have a new route for the first time in several years, according to a Feb. 5 news conference.
The overview
Tour de Houston is a cycling marathon event that offers Houstonians and visitors a unique way to view the city with bike routes passing through historical neighborhoods.
This year's event on April 13 features three distance options for cyclists of all skill levels, from families to casual riders and hardcore cyclists.
The annual bike ride will start and finish at Discovery Green Green and Avenida Plaza in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center. The ride will travel through Downtown Houston, Memorial Park, Tanglewood, Piney Point Village, Bunker Hill Village and Briar Forest to Highway 6 before returning to downtown.
The three route options include:
New things this year include music and entertainment at rest stops, bike racks, seating, refreshments, bike mechanics and medical support staff. Riders will be able to receive a commemorative t-shirt and attend a post-ride after party at Discovery Green with food and drink options, music and an expo with numerous local cycling partners and bike clubs, according to the city’s website.
Registration fees are $45 and all proceeds will benefit Houston Parks and Recreation’s Re-Plant Houston program, a program dedicated to reforesting Houston parks and greenspaces managed by the city’s parks department, according to the news conference.
"We believe in healthy trees [and] we want to protect our urban canopy," Houston’s park director Kenneth Allen said during the news conference. "One of our climate action goals is to plant 4.6 million trees in Houston by 2030. With Apache support...I think we’ll meet this mark with events like the tour."
